Chapter 136 – Episode 136. @$*&!#
Where am I?
Takuya’s vision suddenly shifted, and he thought this as he looked around the place he had arrived at.
But only for a moment. Having experienced all sorts of things in his life, Takuya quickly calmed down and assessed the situation.
For example, he identified escape routes and quickly figured out where he was.
In that short moment, Takuya came to the following conclusion.
‘No escape route, presumed to be inside a workshop.’
It was a simple conclusion, but it was enough to grasp the current situation.
It seemed Takuya had gotten caught up in another strange incident.
This time, even though he hadn’t done anything.
‘It’s my fate…’
Thanks to that, Takuya internally lamented a little, but it was only for a moment.
Takuya looked around the place that was presumed to be a workshop.
Ah, for reference, the reason he was sure it was a workshop was simple.
It was because there were numerous simple or complex-looking machines, as well as disassembled parts and materials he had never heard of.
If there were things like this, it was usually either a workshop or a laboratory, but this place was too shabby to be a laboratory.
If his memory of being unwillingly trapped in a laboratory was correct, a typical laboratory should be full of documents rather than engineering supplies like these.
They also usually pay attention to hygiene for any possible variables.
Takuya was thinking this as he looked around.
“That damn brat! Why isn’t he here yet!”
Before a voice that sounded like thunder came from a corner.
Takuya turned slightly and headed towards the source of the sound.
First, he needed to meet someone else and figure out what was going on.
‘But just in case, I should prepare to counterattack.’
Takuya thought this as he slowly walked, and soon arrived at the place where the voice was coming from.
And there, he saw.
‘An old man?’
It was an old man with white hair and a body that looked healthier than most young men.
He couldn’t see his face because he was turned away, but judging from how red his body was, he didn’t seem to be in a good mood.
Takuya watched the old man for a moment.
It didn’t seem like it would be good to get involved with that old man, so he tried to run away.
“Hey, you there!! Who are youuuu!!!”
Just as he took a step back, the old man knew exactly where he was, as if he were a ghost.
Takuya looked at the old man’s face as he turned towards him and thought.
‘What should I do?’
Running away wouldn’t be bad, but if he ran away here, wouldn’t he look like a really suspicious guy?
He thought it might be okay to talk first and run if things looked bad.
“I can hear you thinking!!”
While Takuya was racking his brain, the old man in front of him realized that Takuya was thinking and shouted.
Takuya briefly considered running away at that shout, but then decided to talk first, and then walked towards the old man with a surrender pose.
“I got lost.”
Standing in front of the old man, Takuya could see his face properly.
And Takuya’s assessment of the old man’s face was this.
‘He seems like a tough old geezer.’
It seemed like it wouldn’t be easy.
To be precise, it seemed like it would be a pain in the ass.
The reason Takuya assessed him like this was simple.
He could see the stubbornness and venom in his face.
You know, like those teachers who are particularly venomous among school teachers.
It was exactly like the expressions of those teachers.
Among them, he had a very researcher-like venomousness?
To be more precise, if Yuzuke’s old man had a venomousness as a person in power, this old man had a venomousness that he had built up alone in a back room, nurturing his hatred.
Anyway, he had a face that was full of anger, with no room for leisure.
Perhaps, if it were the usual Takuya, he would have hated getting involved and run away, but sadly, this time he had chosen to talk instead of running away, so he had no choice but to talk to him.
Just as Takuya was thinking this and about to open his mouth.
“You, you are!! That damn brat!!
The old man’s expression suddenly turned red, and then he pointed his finger at Takuya and shouted.
Takuya was taken aback by that.
No. Why am I a damn brat?
Takuya was flustered by the sudden surprise criticism, but the old man didn’t care and said.
“Hurry up and give me the watch!! You’re keeping that precious thing in such a place!!”
Takuya was puzzled by the old man’s words.
That’s because he was suddenly asking for a watch.
Thanks to that, Takuya, who had been pondering for a moment, then.
‘A watch? Do I have something like that… Ah. Could it be?’
He realized that he also had a watch and rummaged through his subspace pocket, taking out the part he had received after clearing a farming and scenario before.
And as he took out the part, the old man’s face began to show excitement rather than anger, and Takuya quickly gave the part and the watch to the old man, thinking that something would happen if he didn’t.
“Alrighty~!”
The old man, who had received the watch and the part, had his face, which had been scowling like a demon who had lost his wife, change like a child, and he sat down on a chair and started working.
And Takuya, who was watching the whole process, muttered.
‘What the hell is this?’
It was a situation where he couldn’t help but swear.
***
How long had it been since the old man started working?
Takuya couldn’t say anything because of the aura the old man was emitting, as if saying “Do not talk to me,” so he was just looking around the workshop.
And as he looked around the workshop, he realized one thing. No. There were quite a few things.
First of all, this workshop was not just any workshop.
Because a normal workshop would never.
[A drug that turns men into bitches]
They wouldn’t make a drug with such a stupid name.
That wasn’t the only thing.
[Basic Muscle-Up Implant]
[Pills to turn humans into furries]
[A beam that turns bread into a farm]
[A pistol that makes things ripen]
[X-ray glasses]
Etc.
Leaving aside the ethical aspect of whether it was okay to make these things in a workshop, there were many items that made one doubt whether it was even possible to make them.
And after carefully experimenting with a few of them, he realized.
‘Why is this real?’
These items were ‘real’.
Of course, he didn’t know if they were all real.
The only thing he had experimented with was the X-ray glasses.
‘The other things are all a bit too much for me to experiment with.’
He was somewhat interested in the basic muscle-up implant, but implanting that into his spine was a bit much.
Anyway, as Takuya looked around the workshop, he realized that this was an unusual place and that it was a place that made unusual things.
In addition.
‘There’s only that old man in this workshop.’
The only person who had a clue to get out of this workshop was the person over there who was diligently working on the watch.
Thinking this, he played with the X-ray glasses while waiting for the work to be finished.
“Kuhahahaha!! Finally! Finally!! It’s done!!”
Takuya, who was starting to get sleepy and had closed his eyes while wearing the X-ray glasses, was startled by the old man’s thunderous laughter and looked at the old man.
The old man got up from the chair he was working on and stretched his hand high into the sky.
To be precise, he was holding the completed watch, not the watch part I had given him.
Takuya wondered what the hell it was that made him act like that, and just as he was about to approach the old man and ask,
—Woong!
Suddenly, the watch vibrated faintly, and then it left the old man’s hand and came to me.
“What, what is it?”
I was bewildered as I looked at the watch that had suddenly flown into my hand while flying in the sky.
No. Why is the watch suddenly flying in the sky?
And it wasn’t just me who was flustered by the watch flying in the sky.
“No! I fixed it, but why is it going to that damn brat!!”
The old man who had fixed the watch also had a flustered face.
I was about to ask the old man what was going on, but.
“Kuh! So, it’s true that players like that are better than a guy like me! Kuheueueueuk!!”
The old man muttered something without even giving me a chance to ask. Then.
“This dirty world!”
He said that and then waved his arms around.
Suddenly, a bright light enveloped me, and when I came to my senses again, I was out of the alleyway where I had been before going to the workshop.
I was bewildered by this incomprehensible situation and looked around.
And I realized.
‘I’m back.’
That I had returned.
At the same time, I thought.
‘What was that just now?’
A strange space, suspicious objects, a strange old man.
Everything was full of strange things.
To be honest, I wondered if I had just had a dream.
But there was too much clear evidence that it wasn’t just a dream.
[Stopwatch]
[Naked X-ray Glasses]
The evidence was the items I had seen in the workshop and the well-repaired gold pocket watch.
Takuya’s head spun for a moment at the clear evidence that it wasn’t a dream, but then he decided to think positively.
‘Anyway, I got a good item for free, right? Let’s have a drink~’
Takuya thought this, put the pocket watch and X-ray glasses in his pocket, and headed back the way he had been walking.
Takuya calmed his confused mind for a moment and carefully put the pocket watch and X-ray glasses in his pocket.
His head spun at the fact that this strange experience was not just a dream, but he quickly shook it off.
There was no point in thinking about it any further, and it wasn’t like he hadn’t had strange experiences since he came to this place.
Takuya then headed back to the hospital.
With a huge question in his mind.
